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Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape

By : Francesca Russello Ammon

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The first history of the bulldozer and its transformation from military weapon to essential tool for creating the post?World War II American landscape Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction. In order to clear space for new suburban tract housing, an ambitious system of interstate highways, and extensive urban renewal development, wrecking companies demolished buildings while earthmoving contractors leveled land at an unprecedented pace and scale. In this pioneering history, Francesca Russello Ammon explores how postwar America came to equate this destruction with progress. The bulldozer functioned as both the means and the metaphor for this work. As the machine transformed from a wartime weapon into an instrument of postwar planning, it helped realize a landscape-altering ?culture of clearance.? In the hands of the military, planners,

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Author : Francesca Russello Ammon

Pages : 400 pages

Publisher : Yale University Press

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ISBN-10 : 0300200684

ISBN-13 : 9780300200683

 
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